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What? If you don’t have external dependencies, just remove your bundler/transpiler and rely on browsers to import your code.
Re:Embeddings Are Underrated on Saturday November 02, 2024 @07:12AM (#42025632)
Then you would have to renormalize the vectors. You really really want to keep the range -1..1 because that is a special case where cosine similarity equals dot product equals Euclidean distance.
Re:Embeddings Are Underrated on Friday November 01, 2024 @03:59AM (#42014878)
No. That’s like saying you can transplant a person’s neuronal action potentials into another person’s brain and have it make sense to them.
Re:Embeddings Are Underrated on Friday November 01, 2024 @03:57AM (#42014866)
”you could almost build a new kind of Job Search Service that matches job descriptions to job candidates”

The key word being ”almost”. Yes, you can get similarity matches between job requirements and candidate resumes, but those matches are not useful for the task of finding an optimal candidate for a job.

For example, say a job requires A and B.

Candidate 1 is a junior who has done some work with A, B and C.

Candidate 2 is a senior and knows A, B, C, D, E and F by heart. All are relevant to the job and would make 2 the optimal candidate, even though C–F are not explicitly stated in the job requirements.

Candidate 1 would seem a much better candidate than 2, because 1’s embedding vector is closer to the job embedding vector.

Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:49PM (#42011363)
Teflon starts to degrade at 260 degrees Celsius / 500 F. That’s within steak searing temperatures.
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:46PM (#42011335)
That level of intentional misunderstanding just confirms my suspicion of damage control efforts at play in this thread.
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:27PM (#42009081)
This discussion is being monitored and steered by nameless PR companies doing paid damage control for multinational companies that rhyme with the expressions ”YouDont” and ”Lemurs”.

Of course this is the perfect place to do it: if you can convince HN, HN will convince the rest of the world.

Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:25PM (#42009062)
Joke’s on you, the same chemical conglomerates manufacture Teflon _and_ the plastic used in plastic cookware!
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:18PM (#42008994)
Overheat your Teflon pan, take a good huff, wait a few hours and post that comment again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_fume_fever

”When PTFE is heated above 450 °C the pyrolysis products are different and inhalation may cause acute lung injury. Symptoms are flu-like (chills, headaches and fevers) with chest tightness and mild cough. Onset occurs about 4 to 8 hours after exposure to the pyrolysis products of PTFE.”

There is basically no safe limit for these chemicals — EPA limit for drinking water is 4 ppt. U.S. residents already have average blood PFAS levels to the tune of 4000 ppt.

Re:Git commit with hash `0000000` on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:05AM (#41992266)
The Nth commit there has N leading zeroes